I am not a great believer in DCL, I don’t think he will ever be prolific, he misses too many chances. When he was being coached by Big Dunc and had that purple patch that got him into the England team I began to change my mind about him and I thought given the right players around him he might just be a very good centre forward. I didn’t see enough to convince me but I saw enough to think he deserves a go.
That era passed and now we have Sean Dyche and his type of football that mainly centres around balls from a distance being hurled into the box. Or inviting teams unto us and looking for a breakaway, neither of which DCL seems to do that well.
So we have a centre forward who needs chances to be created for him playing in a team which doesn’t create chances, this isn’t doing the team or DCL any good.
I would look to keep DCL, I wouldn’t be paying him a king’s ransom to stay as he hasn’t shown he deserves it. When Sean Dyche goes, hopefully sooner rather than later and we start to build a modern upward looking team then maybe, just maybe we can get the DCL of a few years ago back and scoring.